The Bush press conference with Iraqi's "head of state" today was weird.
Bush kept insisting that Iraq is a "sovereign" nation, but offered the twisted logic that the US must stay there until the nation is ready to be fully autonomous. No timetable would be set to withdrawal of US forces.
Now, it's clear that the Iraqi people don't want US forces. And it's also supposedly clear that Iraq is a "democratic" and "sovereign" nation. So why is the will of the people of Iraq being ignored? If they are a "sovereign" and "democratic" nation, then why don't they get to just tell US forces to leave, while they get about the business of governing themselves as a modern democracy would (e.g., their neighbor Turkey)?
So today's press conference was a carefully orchestrated lie or set of deceptions, scripted to look like a visit from a head of state of a "sovereign" Iraq. But Iraqi "sovereignty" doesn't seem to mean anything other than just calling Iraq "sovereign."
In reality, methinks the President doth protest too much. By emphasizing the word "sovereignty" so much, he made it clear in a way that this Iraqi leader is a completely impotent puppet who said only what Bush wanted him to say, and disagreed with Bush about absolutely nothing.